Hendrik Fehr writes: > Mikael Pettersson writes: > > [...] > > These are "received illegal vector" errors. They indicate > > a serious problem, either with the local APIC bus itself, > > or with how the ACPI/MP tables cause us to program the local > > and I/O APICs. > > > > Do the errors persist if you disable ACPI? > > > I just tried the following two things: > Boot option "acpi=off" (made the cusour switching faster on and off). And when > it came to ide setup i get lots of "hda lost interrupt". The system is > unbootable with that option. > > With boot option "noapic" there are no more APIC error messages. Should i add > that boot option to my defaults in /etc/lilo.conf?

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